Fiji Floods — How You Can Help

One of the worst flooded areas is a place called Nawaka village close to Nadi town. This is where one of the ladies I work with lives, together with her husband who is blind, one of her daughters, 2 grandchildren and a nephew. Their house was submerged by almost 2 metres and they have been living in a local primary school with many other families for the past week. I have attached some photos of the mud that was left at their house after the flood waters resided. Most of the photos are from the outside of their house as it was too dark inside to get good images. It has taken many days to wash the mud out using buckets of water from a nearby drain… and the cleaning will continue for quite some time. Luckily they managed to salvage some washable items from the kitchen cupboards and we were able to hand scrub quite a few clothes using a fridge on it’s side (which conveniently...